SPRING 2010 Course Offerings
IART 3300: Introduction to Interdisciplinary Arts / 3 Cr.
Description: The lines of art making are becoming increasingly blurred with new ways of making, thinking and collaborating among the arts. This course will be a historical survey of interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches to the arts, aiming to look at how this genre has evolved and continues to develop. Using video and performance art as a foundation, we will explore experimental approaches to theater, dance, fine art and music. Students will be given readings, writings, video and sound examples and small exercises to demonstrate ideas and practices of how the arts and artists work together.
Prerequisite: Junior standing and completion of Visual Performing Arts Core, or consent of the instructor.
Instructor: Mary Magsamen
Time: Monday 2:00-5:00
Room: FA 318
IART 3395/ 6395: Selected Topics in Interdisciplinary Arts: Art and Activism / 3 CR.
Description: Art and Activism is a course that surveys a range of activist practices through presentation and discussion around the work of various artists and collectives. Students take an active roll by outlining their own concerns and experimenting with diverse modes of making through assignments involving collaborative approaches, web-based projects, and projects that explore and reinterpret history. This course looks at an array of practices that address political, social, and cultural themes. Relational aesthetics, community activism, green / environmental and land based work, various collaborative practices, and other politically charged modes of art making will be presented and discussed. Through class discussion, students become familiar with contemporary reception and theory around an array of activist practices. A range of visiting artists and curators visit with the class to talk about their practices and answer questions. This semesters visitors include Brett Bloom of the Chicago-based collective Temporary Services.
Prerequisite: IART 3300, or consent of the instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Instructor: Sasha Dela
Time: Monday 5:00-8:00
Room: FA 318
IART 4300/ 6300: Collaboration Among the Arts / 3 Cr.
A team-taught class led by faculty members selected from Art, Creative Writing, Music, and Theatre. Participating students work together to create projects over the course of the semester. Project development includes an in-depth exploration of the range of disciplines practiced by visual artists, performers, and writers, followed by an exchange artistic tools, skills, techniques, and languages.
Prerequisite: IART 3395, or consent of the instructor.
Instructors: Abinadi Meza, Chapman Welch, Justin Doran
Time: Monday/Wednesday 12:00-1:30
Room: FA 312
FALL 2009 Course Offerings
IART 3395/ 6395: Selected Topics in Interdisciplinary Arts : Mitchell Center Mentorships / 3 CR.
Description: Many creative endeavors are driven by context and broad engagement in social, geographical, or historical environments. This class provides a small group of advanced level undergraduate and graduate students, across and beyond the arts, to work directly with Mitchell Center visitors at various stages of planning, implementation and realization of the visiting artists projects and for those students to have direct input from visiting artists and faculty in the realization of their own projects.
Participating students work on their own projects addressing ideas of collaboration and social interaction within a community context. All phases of project development are explored, including research, feasibility, project proposals, execution and documentation. These processes are guided by a UH faculty member, who also provides the historic and aesthetic contexts to realize projects that are timely and relevant. Additionally, students engage with Mitchell Center visitors at various stages of planning, implementation and realization of their projects. To bring the experience full circle, Mitchell Center visitors mentor students through review and critique of student projects, with attention to the effectiveness of strategies of social interaction.
Visiting artists: Randall Szott, Jon Brumit, Jon Rubin (via Waffle Shop Skype), and Karyn Olivier.
Prerequisite: IART 3300, or consent of the instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Instructor: J. Hill
Time: Monday/Wednesday 2:00-5:00
Room: FA 318
IART 3395/ 6395: Selected Topics in Interdisciplinary Arts: Digital Tools and Technology for Collaboration / 3 CR.
Description: A laboratory focused on tools that visual, movement, sound, and text artists may use to collaborate without the obstacles of discipline-specific vocabulary. Technologies may include the Apple iLife package, Mac-based software, and motion capture technology.
Prerequisite: IART 3300, or consent of the instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Instructor: Abinadi Meza
Time: Monday/Wednesday 11:00-2:00
Room: FA 318
SPRING 2009 Course Offerings
IART 3395/ 6395: Selected Topics in Interdisciplinary Arts: / Efficacy in Practice / 3 CR.
Visiting artists: Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, and The Center for Land Use Interpretation
Prerequisite: IART 3300, or consent of the instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Instructor: Sasha Dela
Time: Monday 5:00-8:00
Room: FA 318
IART 4300/6300: Collaboration Among the Arts / 3Cr.
Instructor: J. Hill, Nick Flynn, Rob Smith, Kevin Rigdon
Time: Tuesday / Thursday 10:00-11:30
Room: FA 106
SPRING 2008 Course Offering
ILAS 4300/6300: Collaboration Among the Arts / 3Cr.
Instructor: J. Hill, Nick Flynn, Rob Smith, Kevin Rigdon
Time: Tuesday / Thursday 10:00-11:30
